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Bitalia, the Ancient Woman Priest

By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | January 31, 1993

The woman had upraised hands, in the gesture of a priest or bishop giving the benediction. This is also a gesture that is sometimes used in proclamation of the Word. 

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Revelation, Proclamation, and Women’s Responsibility

By: Ralph A. Kee | October 31, 1992

In history as recorded in the Bible, God often gave His revelation specifically to women, and often instructed women to pass on that revelation to others, including men. In the New Testament, at all of the most significant points of Christian revelation and proclamation, women played a role as significant as, or even more significant [...]

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Ministry and Meditation: The Spiritual Journey of Marchiene Vroon Rienstra

By: Debra Rienstra | October 31, 1991

This article is from a chapter in the book For Such A Time as This: Twenty-six Women of Vision and Faith Tell Their Stories, ed. Lillian Grissen. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1991.

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Book Review: No Time for Silence: Evangelical Women in Public Ministry Around the Turn of the Century

By: CBE International | July 31, 1991

Chosen as one of ETERNITY magazine's best books of the year in 1987, this book encourages women to use their gifts fully in proclaiming the Gospel. Dr. Hassey presents the significant contributions made by American women engaged in public ministry in past years, and who were enthusiastically supported by such institutions as Moody Bible Institute.

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Book Review: Beyond the Curse: Women Called to Ministry

By: Gretchen Gaebelein Hull | July 31, 1991

Subtitled "Women Called to Ministry," Dr. Spencer's book presents a new look at Scripture's description of women's roles. She writes, "Whole dimensions of God, ministry, education and theology are being obscured and ignored if women are not properly trained, then invited, even more so welcomed, to participate as significant and affirmed once they do lead."

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Old Testament Prophets as Types for New Testament Leaders

By: Francis H. Geis | April 30, 1991

If God could call and equip women for this office and ministry without violating their roles as wives and mothers in ancient Israel, why can He not do so in the Church today? Indeed, in light of what Joel 2:28-32 has to say about the Messianic Age, the “New Age of Prophecy”, these OT women [...]

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“Where Do I Go?”

By: Beverly Herbert | January 30, 1991

I came to see the fullness of the Christian community and church, but was I surprised. I found instead disdain for my impending leadership as a female. I found lack of acceptance for my ministry and my leadership. I heard so many masculine pronouns used and masculine leaders speak that I wondered if there [...]

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Jesus and the Ministry of Women

By: Roberta Hestenes† | October 31, 1990

There are many models of ministry. Women are as diverse as men in the patterns of ministry they follow. But let's look at the response of this one woman to Jesus to learn more about the place of women in ministry.

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Ordination in the New Testament (With Pertinent Biblical Materials)

By: Berkeley Mickelsen | July 30, 1990

Some lay persons have been surprised when they look in their concordances under "ordain" or "ordination" to find nothing helpful in their search for a biblical basis for the ordination of ministers. A biblical basis for the ordination of ministers involves the interpreter with a lot of inferences and assumptions. 

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The Husband of One Wife?

By: Guest Author | April 30, 1990

There is considerable debate as to how we should understand the command that a bishop, elder, or deacon should be the husband of one wife. (I Timothy 2:2,12. Titus 1:6) Sometimes these verses are used to argue that only men may be deacons, elders, or bishops because only men have wives. Actually, women enrolled in the order [...]

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